Cut
Cut verb - To depart abruptly from a straight line or course.
Usage example: cut towards the goal, eluding a defender
Zig
Zig verb - To depart abruptly from a straight line or course.
Usage example: the fox zigged to the right, and the hounds followed
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However, a cut to "Later Later That Night" shows him getting drunk at the same bar he visited at the beginning of the video, zig-zagging these tropes.
Source: Lets Play / Taco-Man - However, a cut to "Later Later That Night" shows him getting drunk at the same bar he visited at the beginning of the video, zig-zagging it.
Source: Ignored Epiphany -
Zig-zagged in Sharknado, in which tough barmaid Nova is swallowed by a shark while Fin's non-action ex-wife April escapes ingestion, only to have Fin cut open the shark and pull Nova out alive.
Source: Vasquez Always Dies
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Zig and Cut. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/zig
Cut & Zig. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/zig>.
Zig or Cut. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/zig.
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